diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index daaf5109cec..cb81b04b2c7 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     <exam-maven-plugin.version>4.13.5</exam-maven-plugin.version>
     <maven-taglib-plugin.version>2.4</maven-taglib-plugin.version>
     <!-- `surefire.version` property used in `apache.org:apache`: -->
-    <surefire.version>3.5.0</surefire.version>
+    <surefire.version>3.5.1</surefire.version>
 
     <!-- =====================================================
          Direct dependency version properties (in alphabetical order)
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_surefire_surefire_junit47.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_surefire_surefire_junit47.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..97ed000c259
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_surefire_surefire_junit47.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="3062" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/3062"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-junit47` to version `3.5.1`</description>
+</entry>